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Wednesday 11 September 2013 17:12
Supreme Leader Calls on US to Prove Honesty in New Approach on Syria
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei expressed the hope that the US would prove honest in its new approach which annuls its earlier declaration of war on Syria, but meantime, underlined that Iran continues to pursue the regional developments thoroughly and vigilantly.
Supreme Leader Calls on US to Prove Honesty in New Approach on Syria
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TEHRAN (Asremrooz):"We hope that the new US approach on Syria will be serious and far from political games," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing Iranian Hajj officials in Tehran on Wednesday.

"If so, it will mean that the US is returning from its self-centered and wrong approach (that it had adopted) in the last few weeks," he added.

Ayatollah Khamenei also blasted the US and its allies for threatening Syria with military attack, and said, "They even embark on setting fire and trampling other countries and nations' interests for their alleged national interests which are, in fact, the interests of the Zionists and the big capitalists."

He stressed that Tehran is following the regional developments attentively and vigilantly.

His remarks came after US President Barack Obama said Monday he will stop a US plan to strike Syria if the country agrees with the Russian proposal to surrender its possible chemical stocks to international control.

Obama said the Russian proposal could lead to a "breakthrough," but added that the US will maintain pressure on Syria by continuing his push for Congress to authorize military action.

As the US Congress debates authorizing an attack on Syria, Russia on Monday proposed Syria put its chemical weapons under international control.

The idea is a "potentially positive development", Obama said, adding that Washington will work with Moscow and the international community "to see if we can arrive at something that is enforceable and serious", the Islam Times reported.

The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has welcomed the Russian proposal.

Obama on Monday gave a series of television interviews in an attempt to gain support from lawmakers and public for a limited military strike on Syria.

Media reports suggest that even international allies of the United States are skeptical of Obama’s war plan in the Middle-East.

Recent polls show that the majority of Americans oppose any US military action against Syria.

In recent days, the US, Israel and France have adopted the rhetoric of war against Syria over allegations that the Syrian government was behind a recent chemical attack near Damascus.

The call for military strike intensified after the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed on August 21 that hundreds had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar. The Syrian government has strongly denied the claim, accusing the militants of the attack.
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